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Musica Ficta

    Vocal ensemble
    1996
    © Per Morten Abrahamsen

    Musica Ficta was formed in 1996 by the composer and conductor Bo Holten. In Musica Ficta Bo Holten works with his specialities, contemporary and early music, but also goes a step further and exploits his many years’ experience of Renaissance vocal polyphony in his work with a selected repertoire from quite different epochs. The work with the medieval repertoire began in connection with Musica Ficta’s large concert series "A Thousand Years of Danish Music”, in which this music constituted the first programme.

    Since its foundation Musica Ficta has recorded twenty one CDs with widely differing repertoires: Early Renaissance, Music from the Court of King Christian III, Danish songs, children’s music and Christmas music. 

     

    For more information see Musica Fictas' homepage.

     

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    • Nicolaus Gottschovius, Lupus Hellinck, Orlande de Lassus, Matthaeus le Maistre, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Mogens Pedersøn, Erasmus Rotenbucher, Arnolt Schlick, Ludwig Senfl, Johann Walter

      Reforming Hymns

      An exploration of the Danish Reformation hymnody from an international perspective.

    • Bo Holten

      The Emperor's New Clothes

      Et portrætalbum af Bo Holten med nyindspilninger af tre af hans mest populære koncertværker

    • J.P.E. Hartmann, Carl Nielsen, Thomas Laub, Thorvald Aagaard, Poul Schierbeck, Peter Heise, Bo Holten, Oluf Ring, Harald Balslev, Bo Gunge, Marianne Søgaard, Ernst A. Kiørboe, N.K. Madsen-Stensgaard, Haakon Elmer, Henrik Rung, Emil Hornemann

      Songs from the Borderland

      The history of the Danish-German borderland can be told through songs, here sung by Danish elite vocal ensemble Musica Ficta and conducted by Bo Holten.

    • Bo Holten

      Gesualdo · Shadows – a modern Baroque opera

      Bo Holten's new opera about Carlo Gesualdo – an Italian prince and one of the most extreme composers of the Late Renaissance

    • Clemens non Papa, Conrad Rein, Thomas Stoltzer, Lucas Lossius, Johannes Alectorius

      Thomissøn's Easter

      Reconstruction of a Lutheran service in Ribe Cathedral, 1560, featuring Clemens non Papa’s ‘Missa Virtute magna’

    • Mogens Pedersøn

      Madrigals

      Denmark’s first international composer wrote his madrigals in 1608 as a pupil of Gabrieli

    • Medieval Music in Denmark

      The raw sound of the earliest Danish music from the 9th to the 15th century

    • Thomas Stoltzer, Melchoir Kugelmann, Jørgen Presten, Josquin de Prez, Nicolas Gombert, Heinrich Finck, Ludwig Senfl, Severin Tham

      Winds and Voices II

      Music from the Danish Court in the mid-1500s played from the original part-books

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